The Puzzle Platformer Zone

Platformers where movement challenges combine with switches, physics, logic, or timing.

Latest Standouts

Recent releases that landed well, newest first, filtered to games with enough reviews to trust the score.

WheelMates - Players say: Two players pilot tiny RC cars through a professor’s oversized home, teaming up to solve puzzles and explore his lab. Players like: Co-op Teamwork · Puzzle Exploration · Friend's Pass ·
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Dive into a 2-player co-op driving adventure with RC cars. Explore the professor’s home laboratory, solve puzzles, find hidden paths, and uncover what happened inside. With Friend’s Pass, your friend joins for free.

Unicycle Together - A unicycle, a bomb ready to blow, and sausages struggling to balance! Cooperate with your friends or blow them up in this 2-4 player physics-based chaos game! Reach the summit before the bomb goes off. Don't fall, don't explode, and try to stay a sausage!
An Eggstremely Hard Game - As highly qualified goose parents, work together to bring your little egg home safely. Every crack makes it harder to control, every mistake more hilarious. A co-op physics game for 2 or 4 players about teamwork, clumsiness and honking. HONK!
Scarlet Deer Inn - An embroidered dark medieval folk tale. While life in a seemingly ordinary village is all about simple chores and idle gossip, sinister secrets hide below.
Moss: The Forgotten Relic - Moss: The Forgotten Relic is an emotional and atmospheric adventure set in the pages of a living storybook, brimming with myth and ancient magic. Guide a tiny but determined hero on a heartfelt journey of challenge, courage, and connection.
Deer & Boy - A runaway boy meets a lost fawn, and together they cross a quiet, dangerous world. Solve puzzles, climb, and slip past threats as your companion grows from a fragile newborn into a powerful deer. What you cannot do alone, you learn to do together.
Frog Sqwad 🐸 - 🐸Up to 8 player co-op extraction puzzle-platformer where you swing, jump, catapult your friends, and eat eat EAT until you grow into a humongous Megafrog. Squad up with your frog friends and storm the Sewers for the glory of the Swamp King!🐸
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Jun 11, 2026
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Hold Your King - In this physics-based co-op platformer, you and a friend must carry your short-tempered king through deadly medieval courses. Dodge traps, maintain balance, and work together to reach the throne room. One wrong step, and the king might crown you with his rage!
Inkwellers - In this online 2-player co-op puzzle adventure, you and a friend become Inkwellers and dive into Celiphia’s magical journal. Work together, communicate clearly, and solve puzzles hidden within its pages.
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May 28, 2026
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EMUUROM - A creature-scanning metroidvania. Explore an ancient paradise before it's lost forever. Study the EMUUROM creatures, document your findings in the EMUUDEX, and use what you learn to unlock new paths.
Creepy Tale: Snow Child - An explosive mix of action and mystery, seasoned with black humor and a sinister atmosphere. Journey into Hell alongside a brave boy named Blizzy and defeat Evil itself. Save the world and become a hero. But at what cost?

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Upside Down - Players say: Guide a scarecrow through 2D puzzle-platforming levels, flipping gravity to dodge hazards and reach each stage's goal. Players like: Gravity-Flip Puzzles · Quick Casual Play · Satisfying Tough Stages ·
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Upside Down will immerse you in an incredible adventure. Sharpen your reflexes for this fast-paced, precise puzzle-platformer.

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Feb 14, 2017
81% 👍
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Teslagrad 2 - Players say: After her airship crashes in Wyrmheim, Teslamancer Lumina uses magnetic powers to platform, solve puzzles, and find a way home. Players like: Fluid Magnetic Movement · Hand-Painted Art · Music and Atmosphere ·
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Lumina, a young Teslamancer, finds herself stranded after her airship crash lands in Wyrmheim, a remote and treacherous land to the North. Embark on a dangerous adventure, exploring a gigantic, abandoned tower looming over a fjordside valley, on a quest to get Lumina home and back to her family.

Wordle 3 - Players say: Connect letters to find English words in themed puzzles, earn points for longer answers, and use hints when you get stuck. Players like: Challenging Word Puzzles · English Vocabulary Practice · Varied Word Categories ·
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Wordle 3 is the ultimate word game with more challenges, power-ups, and levels than ever before. Improve your vocabulary and spelling skills while having fun with an addictive and educational word puzzle adventure.

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Oct 6, 2020
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Wordle - Players say: Connect letters in themed grids to find hidden words, using word-length clues and optional hints as the puzzles grow tougher. Players like: Challenging Word Hunts · Themed Word Categories · Quick Casual Puzzles ·
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Wordle is a fun word puzzle game where you guess a hidden word within a few tries. Each guess gives clues about letter placement. Enjoy daily challenges, sharpen your skills, and track your progress in this simple and engaging game.

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Apr 12, 2021
77% 👍
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A Juggler's Tale - Players say: Guide Abby, a circus puppet fleeing captivity, through a storybook world of string-based puzzles, platforming, traps, and pursuers. Players like: Storybook Art · Atmospheric Presentation · Puppet-String Puzzles ·
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Lead Abby the string puppet through a bruised, but beautiful fairy tale world in this cinematic adventure. Solve riddles, evade traps and shake off pursuers on the way to find freedom. Can Abby take control of her fate with all the strings attached?

Paper Beast - Players say: Explore a surreal ecosystem born from the internet, guide paper creatures, and reshape terrain to solve physics-based puzzles. Players like: Surreal Visuals · Immersive VR World · Reactive Paper Creatures ·
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An exploration and adventure game about wildlife sprung from the depths of the internet. An unknown power seems to upset its balance. Join forces with exotic creatures to unravel the mysteries of this universe.

Minute of Islands - Players say: As mechanic Mo, explore a failing archipelago, use the Omni Switch to restore giant-built machines, and solve platform puzzles. Players like: Hand-Drawn Art · Emotional Story · Atmospheric Music ·
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Explore strange and wonderful islands and dark labyrinths below in this narrative puzzle platformer. Guide young mechanic Mo on her quest to repair a world on the brink of collapse. The powerful Omni Switch at your disposal may not be enough to fix the damage that hides beneath the surface...

The Talos Principle 2 - Players say: As robot 1K, solve tool-based puzzles across a strange island while exploring a megastructure and shaping a new society. Players like: Fresh Puzzle Mechanics · Beautiful Environments · Thought-Provoking Themes ·
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The Talos Principle 2 is a thought-provoking first-person puzzle experience that greatly expands on the first game's philosophical themes and stunning environments with increasingly mind-bending challenges.

Mind Spheres - Players say: Arrange and rotate platforms, then release a rolling sphere through 50 physics puzzles to reach each level’s goal. Players like: Relaxing Puzzle Sessions · Simple Physics Puzzles · Pleasant Piano Music ·
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Inspired by two not so different worlds, Mind Spheres brings you an exclusive and awesome experience. A physics puzzle with minigolf + pinball unique mashup. Figure out puzzles in order to proceed to the next level.

Toby: The Secret Mine - Players say: Toby crosses a dangerous world of traps and puzzles to find the villagers kidnapped from his mountain home. Players like: Moody Visual Atmosphere · Varied Environments · Approachable Puzzles ·
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A challenging puzzle platformer inspired by games like Limbo and Badland.

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Oct 20, 2015
70% 👍
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Out There Somewhere - Players say: Stranded on an alien world, use a teleport-firing device to solve platforming puzzles and reach the planet’s core to escape. Players like: Teleporting Puzzles · Clever Room Design · Retro Pixel Art ·
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You play an explorer stranded on a dangerous alien planet. Low on fuel, your only hope for escape is to find the planet’s core in this incredibly clever action-puzzle-platformer.

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Mar 14, 2016
93% 👍
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Fly'N - Players say: Guide four Buds with distinct powers through puzzle-platforming levels to protect Helicia’s World-Trees from Dyer. Players like: Distinct Bud Abilities · Colorful Visual Design · Well-Designed Levels ·
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Somewhere between a platformer, a puzzle game and a great big dollop of pure fun, Fly’N will challenge your skills through more than forty levels set in a luxuriant world. Experiment with the four Buds to save the World-Trees from Dyer, the loony hair-dryer who intends to destroy their Helys!

Hidden Gems

Well-liked but under-played: strong scores, small review counts.

MotionRec - MotionRec is a recording puzzle action game where you progress through stages by recording and playing back your own movements.
Poke ALL Toads - A puzzle game starring mischievous fairies. Complete levels by working as a team, operating dangerous machinery and manipulating local wildlife.
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Mar 20, 2026
100% 👍
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Piece by Piece - Piece by Piece is a literal puzzle platformer where each level is fragmented into puzzle pieces. Clear each puzzle by connecting and unconnecting each piece to make your way through each of our 100 handcrafted levels. Discover new themes and mechanics along the way!
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Mar 13, 2026
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Little Adventurer Treasure Hunt - "Little Adventurer Treasure Hunt" is a game focused on object-finding. The main storyline revolves around helping alien friends who have been forced to land on Earth due to an "accident", assisting them in searching for scattered items, parts, and their lost crew members across various locations.
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Feb 2, 2025
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Moss II VR - Players say: Guide mouse hero Quill through a hunted fantasy world, solving puzzles and fighting foes while reaching into VR scenes to help her. Players like: Immersive VR Interaction · Expressive Quill · Detailed Diorama Worlds ·
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Quill is back—and she’s being hunted. To stand a chance, Quill will need a true partner by her side—and we hope that partner is you. Moss: Book II is an action-adventure puzzle game and award-winning sequel (The Game Awards "Best VR/AR Game") to Moss.

CATO: Buttered Cat - Players say: Guide a cat and buttered toast through puzzle-platforming levels, using their separate moves and paradox-powered flight to reach exits. Players like: Cute Cat-and-Toast · Creative Puzzle Mechanics · Varied World Levels ·
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Puzzle platformer where you control both the cat and the toast, based on the famous "Buttered Cat Paradox". The game features 200+ levels, 70+ skins, plus boss fights and mini-games!

Desvelado - Turn off the lights, dodge the ghosts and go to sleep as soon as you can in this hand-crafted 2d platform experience! In this vampiric precision platformer you will overcome challenging puzzles and deadly enemies before going to sleep in your cosy coffin. 
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Aug 14, 2024
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Chromatic Conundrum - Chromatic Conundrum is a first person puzzle game where you manipulate light. Combine different colors and form shadows to illuminate your way through an enigmatic world.
Juufuutei Raden™'s Guide for Pixel Museum - Solve the puzzle and complete the art! "Pixel Puzzle" that lets you experience art and culture with Juufuutei Raden.
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Jun 4, 2025
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Stardust Skate - Skate through Stardust Valley in this endless runner, competing for the highest score and the coolest deck!
Larcin Lazer - In this puzzle game combining action and stealth, your memory will be your best tool! Remember the location of the lasers, they disappear as soon as you move. Avoid deadly lasers with style, steal from the richest and save your cat 🐱 Prepare for a MEMORABLE heist
Babushka's Glitch Dungeon - Oh hello dearie.. Babushka needs to clean up her big magical cellar. Use hag magic, or just hit stuff with your broom.

Top Rated

Defining examples of the genre, all rated 85%+ across 1,000+ reviews.

Portal 2 - Players say: As an Aperture Science test subject, solve physics puzzles with portals and new tools, or tackle a separate campaign in co-op. Players like: Clever Portal Puzzles · Sharp Character Humor · Separate Co-op Campaign ·
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The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!

Portal - Players say: In Aperture Science, solve first-person physics tests by linking two portals to move yourself and objects through space. Players like: Inventive Portal Puzzles · GLaDOS's Dry Humor · Gradual Puzzle Learning ·
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Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.

Öoo - Players say: Guide a bomb-bodied caterpillar through a connected world, using explosions to cross obstacles and solve puzzles. Players like: Clever Bomb Puzzles · Wordless Guidance · Satisfying Discoveries ·
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A Bomb Caterpillar's Big Adventure! "Öoo" is a charming yet mysterious exploration puzzle platformer where you discover creative ways to use bombs!

The Upturned - Players say: In a hotel for the dead, hop through strange floors, find replacement fuses, and throw furniture at monsters to reach your room. Players like: Comedy-Horror Balance · Funny Ik Dialogue · Physics-Based Throwing ·
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A frantic adventure. Welcome to the Upturned Inn: a grand hotel for the dead! You just want to find your room.

Moonleap - Players say: Guide a moon boy through shifting platform puzzles, changing day to night with each jump to recover shooting stars. Players like: Creative Puzzle Design · Clever Jump Mechanic · Charming Pixel Art ·
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Explore a world full of mysteries that transform with each jump! Moonleap is a game about a moon boy on his journey to recover shooting stars. Change day to night with your jump and catch all the stars in this challenging puzzle-platformer!

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Apr 11, 2023
99% 👍
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Webbed - Players say: Play a tiny spider who swings and spins webs through a forest, solving physics puzzles and rallying bugs to rescue her partner. Players like: Web-Swinging Physics · Creative Web Puzzles · Charming Bug Cast ·
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Swing through the trees, spin sticky webs, and make friends with bugs! Be the adorable spider you've always wanted to be.

Gravitas - Players say: As an apprentice in a gravity gallery, solve first-person platforming puzzles by bending gravity and moving cubes through lethal exhibits. Players like: Enjoyable Puzzles · Curator’s Humor · Gravity Mechanics ·
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Gravitas is a short first-person puzzle platforming game that transports you to the Gallery of Refined Gravity. Manipulate gravity and the gallery itself to prove yourself a pupil worthy of the Curator’s masterwork.

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Aug 23, 2019
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Tinykin - Players say: As tiny astronaut Milo, explore a house-sized world, platform across rooms, and use colorful Tinykin to solve puzzles and find a way home. Players like: Inventive Room Exploration · Distinctive Art and Humor · Smooth Soapboard Movement ·
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Catch hundreds of tinykin and use their unique powers to bring Milo back to his home planet and back to normal size!

Perspective - Players say: Move a first-person camera through 3D space to reshape a 2D platformer's paths and guide its avatar to each exit. Players like: Perspective-Based Puzzles · Creative Level Design · Memorable Ending ·
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Perspective is an experimental platformer. The player avatar moves in a 2D space that transforms when the player changes perspective in 3D space. The player needs to use this mechanic navigate the 2D avatar to a goal in order to progress from level to level.

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Oct 9, 2019
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INSIDE - Players say: Guide a hunted boy through a bleak 2.5D world of hazards, stealth, and environmental puzzles as he enters a hidden project. Players like: Oppressive Atmosphere · Wordless Storytelling · Clever Puzzle Design ·
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Hunted and alone, a boy finds himself drawn into the center of a dark project. INSIDE is a dark, narrative-driven platformer combining intense action with challenging puzzles. It has been critically acclaimed for its moody art style, ambient soundtrack and unsettling atmosphere.

Murders on the Yangtze River - Players say: A traveling detective investigates murders along early-20th-century China’s Yangtze, seeking clues to his brother’s death. Players like: Connected Case Story · Historical Detail · Memorable Characters ·
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"Murders on Yangtze River" is an Ace Attorney-like detective game that takes you on a journey through early 20th century China as you solve a series of intriguing cases. Use your logical reasoning and deduction skills to uncover clues, interrogate suspects, and solve the mysteries.

Zup! F - Players say: Blast red cubes in 60 physics puzzles, steering a blue ball onto a platform and keeping it there for three seconds. Players like: Easy Profile Achievements · Relaxing Puzzle Breaks · Satisfying Explosions ·
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Minimal physical puzzle with explosions

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Dec 11, 2019
97% 👍
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